[mb-users] Bonus discs: "Official" or "Promotion"?

[Mark Trolley]

I just noticed some other people were having the same discussion on
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ReleaseStatus, but I also see that according to
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/BonusDisc:

"Also note that the
ReleaseAttribute<http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ReleaseAttribute>of bonus
discs are not necessarily the same as the release they were
distributed with. Use the attribute correct for the bonus disc on its own."

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Although technically MB Releases are discs, I feel that a real-world
> release is virtually made of the individual discs (what MB calls
> Releases, are you still following me?) so that the ReleaseStatus
> should stay the same on all the Releases of a release. By now, you
> should be completely lost :-D
>
> If by any chance you caught my meaning, be warned: This is only my
> point of view, I may be completely wrong!
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Mark Trolley <marktrolley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > "etc." leaves it a bit open for interpretation though. I went with
> Official
> > after all, the more I thought about it the more I felt that was right.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Mark Trolley <marktrolley at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Should a bonus disc included with an album (or in the case of the one
> >> > I'm
> >> > looking at now the deluxe release of an album) be considered an
> >> > "Official"
> >> > EP or a "Promotion" EP? I have entered them before as "Official" but
> I'm
> >> > not
> >> > sure if that's right now since they are not available on their own,
> but
> >> > can
> >> > only be obtained by buying the album they come with. With the release
> >> > I'm
> >> > looking at now, the deluxe edition of Agony & Irony by Alkaline Trio
> it
> >> > feels like I should be using "Promotion" since it's being used as a
> >> > selling
> >> > tool to get you to buy the deluxe edition instead of the regular
> >> > edition.
> >>
> >> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ReleaseStatus :
> >>
> >> "A give-away release or a release intended to promote an upcoming
> >> official release. (e.g. pre-release versions or releases included with
> >> a magazine, versions supplied to radio DJs for air-play, etc)."
> >>
> >> I don't think bonus disks would fit the definition!
>
> --
> Frederic Da Vitoria
>
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